Word: planets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political response to our current despair must include some real answer to the agony of Vietnam. But the Left owes some responsibility to the American people, too: to put forward some ideas of how their lives can be improved and how their nation and planet can be kept livable. It is not a moral act to bring the nation crashing down upon their heads...
Which perhaps needs a moment of explanation. Heinlein, "the dean of space-age fiction," has been one of my favorite people since I was ten. Red Planet, Between Planets, Have Spacesuit- Will Travel, Pod kayne of Mars, Starman Jones, The Star Beast, The Puppet Masters, The Menace from Earth- I have read all of his books at least twice, and many of them ten or twelve times. And so have millions of sci-fi freaks around the country. I imagine that a lot of them right now are holding their heads and moaning, "Bobbie, Bobby Heinlein, how could you treat...
...soul of the Planet is Wakening, the time of dissolution of Material Forms is here, our generation's trapped in Imperial Satanic Cities and Nations, and only the prophetic priestly consciousness of the Bard-Blake, Whitman or our own new selves-can steady our gaze into the Fiery eyes of the Tygers of the Wrath to come...
...Friend of Kafka, Singer's fifth book of short stories, he writes of Americans, but they are emigres for whom Hell is a city very much like New York. Physical inhabitants of Mr. Sammler's planet, they are nevertheless very much at home in a Kantian world where space and time obey the appellate court of perception. A woman enters a Manhattan cafeteria and sees Hitler. Later, after her death, she herself is seen, strolling Broadway. A mischievous editor sends an obscure philosopher love letters from a mythical heiress-and the joke blossoms into a great tragedy...
...taught the rules of the war game and fight only when cornered. But for the next 50 years or so, women in politics will be very valu able by tempering the idea of manhood into something less ag gressive and better suited to this crowded, post-atomic planet...